While vaccines continue to make headlines across the globe, face masks such as N95 and KN95 respirators cannot be simply dropped out of the news radar as more contagious COVID-19 strains are spreading infection like wildfire globally.
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that COVID-19 can spread via respiratory droplets from sneezing, coughing, and talking or through airborne transmission, face covers that can filter aerosol particles have become a part of everyone’s daily essentials wherever we go, and whatever we do.
Find out why mask wearing has become the pinnacle in stopping or slowing the spread of these particles, especially if a person has the COVID-19 virus.
The global spread of COVID-19 has put a huge demand on masks and face-covering with the goal of reducing the spread of aerosol particles in the air. Find out which ones were the most - and least- effective against the spread of COVID-19.